The Russian Supreme Privy Council elects Anna Ivanovna to be Empress
of
Russia, with limits placed upon her rule, but she seizes power and crowns
herself on April 28.

In retaliation for the massacre at Fort Rosalie the previous year,
French militia in Louisiana, with Choctaw and Tunica allies, smash
the Natchez Indians killing most, selling others into slavery, the
rest fleeing and joining other tribes. The expense, however, bankrupts
the French East India Company.

The French push the Meskwaki (Fox) Indians out of their territory
near Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They accept an invitation to join
the Iroquois League. To get there, they cross Illini territory without
the latter tribe's permission, and there things get nasty. 100 French
troops and 1300 allied Indians surround the Fox at a fortification somewhere
in Illinois (some say near Bloomington). The
siege ends September 8 where up to 1,000 Fox men, women and children are
killed.

Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith are elected official government
printers of Pennsylvania. Franklin breaks out of an arrangement
to marry the niece of one of his co-lodgers, named Godfrey, when he discovers
the Godferys want him to elope with the girl and spare them the expense
of a dowry.

The Acadians of Nova Scotia swear an oath to not take up
arms against KingGeorge II but are not required to take up arms against
the French.

American colonists are instructed to mark all large white pine trees as
the property of the King, reserved for ship's masts.